Year: 2014

RUNDOWN: – RUN!RUN!RUN! (Regent’s Canal): Warming Up! 31Oct 1100hrs. This is a 0.5 mile run which is a part of and opens the SEA Arts Festival events at the Proud Archivist (N1 5ET). No running experience or running shoes required. – RU...

Driftingspace led a walk that responded to artists’ work in the four venues displaying the Walk On exhibition in Plymouth. This was the first ambulatory event for Textually Active as we wandered parts of the city plan, playing on artistic ideas of walking arts practice. It included all, none, or some of the following: Establishing desire lines Making the bounds Pointing […]

Question: How does one ‘do’ deconstruction and detournement without it becoming simply an academic enterprise? Answer: Laibach !!! What’s interesting about this metal/industrial/rock German band is their use of situationist strategies such as detournement and provocation and also their discursive deconstruction of ideas such as nation state, capitalism and immigration – for more info check […]

driftingspace is delighted to be showing at Counter: Plymouth’s Artists’ Book Fair on Sunday, 19th October, 2014 where we will be presenting: Still Shot Dialogue Narrative Diagrammatics Drawings Microtexts Scripts Ephemeral Makings

Textually Active 3: A Driftingspace Project was held as part of a short residency at Karst, Plymouth, April 2014 was supported by a curatorial grant from PAC Home, Plymouth Arts Centre and by in-kind support from Plymouth College of Art.

The act of walking leaves a trace. The footprint is a potent mark of humans walking in the landscape. It is the beginnings of a map. It records where we have been. Footprints through time'Formby Footprints' from 7000 years ago and Buzz Ald...

Walking in this landscape, you become acutely aware of water. It defines the land. Burns fill up in response to weather, becoming animate. After heavy rain, water becomes a visceral force in the landscape.midsummer sizzles S-T-E-A-M rises from ov...

Alec Finlay has imagined walks between some colour place names in the landscape (Alec Finlay: Some Colour Trends ). Alec was interested to know how the names relate to reality in nature, and if walks between them were actually possible. So I went to ex...

The pressure from shooting estates in the Hielan Ways area results in a heavy land management program. Gamekeepers are employed by the big – and frequently absentee – landowners to manage their estates and maintain the grouse population artificially hi...

There are reminders everywhere as to the purpose of this land. Often you see piles of discarded gun cartridges. You see them in different colours - blues, green, reds, orange.Perhaps they are colour coded for different types of bullet?On a two day w...

‘It is a badge of honour among hikers to have ‘bagged’ all 284 Munros, which to the uninitiated, might sound like a joyless mountain slog. But even for non-committed trekkers, a spot of Munro bagging is an infinitely exhilarating experience in the wil...

The Pict Road (Ron’s route)Ron Brander had researched a route that seemed to link several locations of significance to the Pictish tribes (Ron Brander, personal correspondence). The route starts at the Glacks of Balloch and ends at Milton of Lesmore. S...

Thank you for running with us at the inaugural activities run by the RUN!RUN!RUN! International Body for Research in London (20 September), Lancaster (22, 23 September) and Leeds (25 September). Here is a quick rundown of what happened. The next RUN!RU...

I walked from Amsterdam to Austria in a three piece walking suit. 1364 kilometer, 96 days. Every day I wrote a story. Every day I collected pieces of thread, ropes, strings, rubber bands and I tied them together in the order in which I found them...

Saligo Bay to Machir Bay, Islay I am walking with my friend and colleague, Adrienne. Late August in Scotland can feel like early autumn, but waking up in Port Charlotte today, the sun glistening off a calm and beautifully clear Loch Indaal, summer is still here at least. It’s many years since I’ve visited […]

What a sensational + sunny + stormy summer it has been – literally, metaphorically- and meteorologically- speaking. Summer is still going on (?), but let’s make hay while the sun (?) shines (?). As hay (?) is being churned out, let’s...

With Professor Susan Collins, Director, Slade School of Fine Art. 2014 London. Flying in Ryanair / Easyjet. (Take your pick). Someone suffers a heart attack. (As one would, if one travels on said plane). Steward(ess) asks: Is there a Doctor in the hous...

It is the simplest thing I can think of. And the simplest things always make the most sense. It is easy. You open your door, you close it behind you. You take your house with you and you walk. Your body moves through the world, becomes part of the worl...